Re: Honesty vs Opinion vs The Truth - Best IBM i Tool Set

Now that some of the back and forth on this has settled some, my own take
on this thread is:

Not every problem has a single solution. In the MVC architecture, I will
always make the database absorb as much of the business logic and
referential integrity as I can (Model and the security portion of the
Controller). That's what they were made for. It doesn't matter if it's
pure referential integrity with constraints, etc. or SQL/RPG(any
combination thereof) or pure SQL. Use the Database and the application
engine on IBM i for what it was made for.

Use PHP to manage the View and the other half of the Controller to present
a user experience that works for the use case as presented.

Now, if the Model needs to be moved to another database, there's a good
chance it can be unbolted from the rest of the application and a new one
bolted on without major rewrite.......

Two distinct sets of skills to build, with good availability of talent on
both sides.

What's more important to me, is the development team using Agile techniques
so that once the base application is delivered, incremental change is easy
and expected.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Rob <rob.couch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 11/4/2015 3:48 PM, Rob wrote:

Yes.. We are running analytics, we also process Scheduled Automated
payments.

So are there any business rules which are implemented via these non-web
programs that you will also need to enforce in the web application?

No.

If
so, how will you do that? Will you ask the RPG people to expose the
rules in a stored procedure or UDF for SQL to be able to easily use?

I am the people... PHP and RPG.

Or is the web application so distinct from the rest of the business'
applications that it's got no overlapping business rules?

The web application is the entire business. From New partners, partners
staff, customers via our partners, underwriting staff for the loan process
and finally customer support and collections.
All of our reports are delivered via back end web interfaces.

I'm very interested to read how other people have tackled the problem of

'legacy' business rules overlapping new web deployments.

I am most interested in what gives me the best bang for the long term.

Thanks Buck...

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